Primary focal hyperhidrosis occurs when the cholinergic receptors on your eccrine glands become overactivated. These receptors are part of your sympathetic nervous system. Sweating from primary ...

The sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric nervous system work together to balance out your body’s functions. Usually, the parasympathetic nervous system hormones promote relaxation ...

A pathway once considered fundamental in Alzheimer’s disease is being studied intensely again, and may soon result in safer, ...

The parasympathetic nervous system, primarily the vagus nerve, has been called the 'cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway'. It is one of the endogenous mechanisms that help to regulate the innate ...

suggesting a new role for local glial interactions within the mammalian sympathetic ganglia. Cholinergic neurons in the central nervous system also provide modulatory control of target function ...